Sleep future research

We were resigned not to get much sleep when an inspiration dawned on us Try a metalloporphyrin. It catalyzes regiospecific hydroxylation. Preliminary experiments were planned on one of the few available unused napkins. We landed in Zurich after the exhausting sojourn. We were weary but had the nucleus of an idea that was initially unsuccessful but was to play a very important role in our future research programs. 

Although a variety of self-report methods have been developed for and used in research in other areas such as memory, decision making, educational psychology, instruction, and clinical psychology (17,18), they have yet to be fully implemented in research on sleep deprivation. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the literature on verbal reports in sleep deprivation and to discuss future directions of research in the sleep deprivation field using verbal reports. 

Of interest for this chapter, however, is the ability of individuals to accurately assess their internal state of motivation during sleep deprivation conditions. Unfortunately, research in the sleep deprivation field has not yet addressed this issue. It would seem that questions assessing individuals motivation to complete a task might be related to, yet different from, their subjective assessment of effort. Future studies could be designed to investigate the relationship between sleep deprivation and motivation to complete a task and the relationship of motivation to subjective effort. 

Table 1. Research agenda for future studies of sleep-related issues in ADa...

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